[redgolum]

Been reading a bit about the Nestorians, and find it kind of funny that Nestor himself probably wasn't one. It was those who claimed to follow him after he went into exile at a monastery that took his writing to the logical extreme. Or rather, they only had a superficial understanding of what he was saying. After Chalcedon, Nesotor felt vindicated in that the formula there worked out was what he was trying to say. Unfortunately for him, neither his supporters or his opponents understood that (which begs the question if he wasn't just saying he agreed to Chalcadon to try to get out of trouble).

In fact, one author that I am reading suggested that was the real issue that the ecclessial authorities were concerned about. That nominal Christians would just wander into a Nestorian heresy without actually thinking that much about it.

[Kolokotronis]

"Been reading a bit about the Nestorians, and find it kind of funny that Nestor himself probably wasn't one."

The same has been said about Pelagius. With Nestorius, however, it is a fact that he argued against the title of Theotokos for for the Virgin Mary, asserting that she should be called the Christotokos, which of course is pretty much definitional of the heresy itself.